Thursday, April 21, 2011

Waste-Free Lunch Trash Audit


On April 20th we conducted another lunch waste audit to compare the results between a 'normal' lunch day and a 'waste-free' day. The school reduced their total waste by 19% and food waste by 33%! Here are the findings:


Photos of the waste audit



Mar 11, 2011

Apr 20, 2011

% change

plastics

6

8

+33%

milk containers

10

9

-10%

food

48

32

-33%

styrofoam

4

6

+50%





total weight

68

55

- 19%


worst offenders:

37 unused spork containers

3-4 gallons of milk poured into the waste bin (next time will we weigh the wasted milk)

several untouched bananas/oranges but greatly reduced from the apples in the last audit



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